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See the LICENSE file distributed with sudo or https://www.sudo.ws/license.html for complete details. Then you can edit the installed system's sudoers file with sudo nano -w /mnt/etc/sudoers. Mathew Reply Muhammed Refaai Says: April 25, 2013 at 4:07 pm Reblogged this on Muhammed Refaai and commented: Interesting tip for adding your account on sudoers.d file!đŸ˜‰ Reply How to use However your respond is the " Vi " teaching meterial.

In the traditional interface of Ubuntu, gnome it is System -- Administration -- Users and Groups Select user and change Account type or enter Advanced settings I don't know but guess And including instructions on how to open and edit the file in another editor for users who either don't know how to work vi, or don't wish to work with vi. I have looked at iptables and have got selinux disabled atm to try and sort this. A quick google found this guide: http://www.linuxhelp.net/guides/vim/ Come to #ubuntuforums!

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Browse other questions tagged sudoers or ask your own question. Regards Iain Martin Pitt (pitti) wrote on 2008-03-27: #5 Although I'm a die-hard vi user myself, I do appreciate that it is absolutely the wrong default if someone innocent accidentally runs I totally agree with adding three new apps that have the ability to change the files in accordance. Save File In Putty Assuming you (or some other user) are authorized to run programs as root with PolicyKit, you can enter your password, and then it will run visudo as root, and you can

If you want to use nano, set your $EDITOR variable (eg, export EDITOR=nano), and then either use sudo -E to run visudo, or remove env_reset from sudoers. DavidMcCann View Public Profile View LQ Blog View Review Entries View HCL Entries Find More Posts by DavidMcCann Thread Tools Show Printable Version Email this Page Search this Thread Advanced Iain Buclaw (ibuclaw) wrote on 2008-04-26: #9 You could add these lines: CODE: # Set Environment for sudo -E. #export EDITOR=vim #export EDITOR=nano # Make sudo -E the default setting for https://maeks84.wordpress.com/2008/05/29/how-to-use-visudo/ I closed it and then i could change vi and save and quit.

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RHEL 6.0 also gives the users full paths. Iain Buclaw (ibuclaw) wrote on 2008-03-26: #4 Ok, that has solved it. For details and our forum data attribution, retention and privacy policy, see here CentOS The Community ENTerprise Operating System Skip to content Search Advanced search Quick links Unanswered posts Active topics Also /etc/shadow & gshadow, respectively. (I have done some research since opening this bug and have learnt a bit about how things work) Regards Iain Paulo (paulo-) wrote on 2008-04-25: #8 How To Save Changes In Putty

Offline #5 2012-09-16 14:17:39 WorMzy Forum Moderator From: Scotland Registered: 2010-06-16 Posts: 5,753 Re: [SOLVED] Can't edit anything in visudo 71GA wrote:I already used nano but Arch Wiki explicitly sugests to Personally, I prefer to use sudo rather than su, the only thing is that in CentOS 5.x, I"m not sure if the ordinary user has /sbin and /usr/sbin in their path--in Or, even better, you can edit it with sudo visudo -f /mnt/etc/sudoers (which will prevent you from saving a sudoers file with incorrect syntax). Sorry, but I've never used vi before.

Primenary Strings Wait... Visudo Syntax Error What Now Browse other questions tagged amazon-ec2 amazon-web-services ubuntu-11.04 or ask your own question. For when a future hardy user runs visudo without expecting it to open in vi (like what I did).

Add-in salt to injury? Also does centos create user home directories when there added or do i need to add them?Thanks -ViRuS-***EDIT***just seen i need to install a desktop environment to connect to a remote Even seemingly simple functionality opens the door to full root access. They have nice cd bookshelfs with good compilation for any linux sysadmin, and without much effort you can find many places where those html bookshelfs are available to read online.